Hidden Expenses in Cloud Computing
Cloud computing may not deliver the cost savings that everybody seems to expect. The general computing community seems to take it for granted that the driving reason for moving to…
A High Impact Baseline for Clouds
FEDRAMP (FEDeral Risk and Authorization Management Program) offers baselines of 800-53 security controls that have been tailored for cloud environments. But they do not offer a HIGH impact baseline. Presumably,…
Self Improvement is Recursive
A recursive process does something, stores the result, and then reapplies the same process using the new result. We see this often in mathematical equations and computer programming. Any process…
Self-conscious Intelligence
We use a variety of terms to qualify what we consider to be intelligent life: intelligence, consciousness, self-awareness, higher consciousness. There seem to be two primary ingredients common to most…
Potential AI Catastrophe
“Weak AI” and/or “Narrow AI” is defined in the article linked below as Artificial Intelligence (AI) that may be able to match or even exceed human intelligence in a narrowly…
Self Awareness
“I think, therefore I am” (cogito ergo sum) – Rene Descartes Consciousness or awareness of self existence, seems to be a combination of a sense of limitation of self, of…
Post Biological Intelligence
We know that intelligence does not depend upon biological forms. Biology based intelligence takes advantage of a “built-in”/natural evolutionary process to adapt and enhance ability to survive. Once conscious intelligence…
Neural Networks
A biological neural network is a collection of connected neurons that offer some function as a nervous system or brain. But the term “neural network” usually refers to a software…
Strong AI
“Strong AI” is also known as “General AI” and refers to Artifical Intelligence that meets or exceeds human intelligence as opposed to AI that is designed for a smaller or…
Multidimensional Intelligence
Intelligence is often presented as a simple linear scale that ranges from some description of “low” to some description of “high”. In fact, intelligence takes on different forms. The linear…